Center for English Language

and Orientation Programs

Boston University

SPRING 2012 - English Language and Culture - Level High D & E

Joseph Pettigrew

CELOP 207

890 Commonwealth Ave.

Boston, MA 02215

617-353-7838 / jpettigr@bu.edu

Class Information and Syllabus:  

• 2012-01 Class Info Sheet - Spring High D & E Culture.pdf

• 2012-01 Syllabus - Spring High D & E Culture.pdf  

Next Stop, Boston

Get to Know Your Neighborhood

Interesting neighborhoods in and around Boston, including Harvard Square & Coolidge Corner

Shop 'till You Drop 

Where to buy what you need for your dorm or apartment

A Club for Every Taste and Cause

The Voice of Experience

Advice from the class of 2011 to new students (video)

Places to Go in the Boston Area

Suggestions from CELOP students

Jill Brand's Boston Red Sox Page - A CELOP teacher's page about Boston's baseball team

The Hubway  - Rent a bike (if you feel brave enough to ride on Boston's streets). See also BU Today's Review.

A daily 10-minute news program for American high school students - with a  transcript on the CNN page.  Links:

CNN Student News page

Videojug

 A site that is a lot like YouTube, but with instructional videos on every topic you can think of, most with transcripts. A mix of British and American accents.

Quick & Dirty Tips

Audio podcasts on a wide variety of subjects, including legal issues, managing money, public speaking, exercise, health, modern manners, and more. Each episode has a transcript that you can read while you listen to it.

The Academic Word List

The Academic Word List contains 570 word families which appear frequently in a broad range of academic texts. These are not the 570 most common words in English; they are the ones you will encounter most often while reading in university - as well as in newspapers, magazines, and on the internet. If you want to improve your vocabulary, this is a very good place to start.

• The list on Simple English Wiktionary (click on the words and go to the definition)
• The list with all forms of each word (e.g., abstract/abstraction/abstractly/...)
• Practice exercises with answers (practice 10 words at at time with immediate feedback) 

Reading Suggestions for ESL students

Suggestions from various sources of good books (mostly fiction and biographies) for ESL students - in downloadable pdf format. 

• Recommended_Books_(City-College-of-San-Francisco).pdf  
• Reading Suggestions for ESL Students.pdf

Newcomer's Almanac

A newsletter with information on news, sports, politics, culture, holidays, language, and more.

• Newcomers-Almanac-January-2012.pdf
  

How (Not) to Study

An article in the New York Times says, "Psychologists have discovered that some of the most hallowed advice on study habits is flat wrong."

• Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
  

And as long as you're going to the New York Times web site, take a look at:

• Ten Simple Google Search Tricks

Videos from Class

To save to your computer, click on the link below. On the next page, click on Download at the top left of the page.

ABC News - Creative Disorder.m4v

Here is a link to a news story from Channel 5 in Boston on CELOP's installation of footbaths for Muslim students. The director and a couple of CELOP students are interviewed. Check it out here

Audio from Class

Links to the CELOP MLL website. You can listen online to any of the audio from the Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking textbooks. You will need your BU logon ID and password.